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Rezatta, the life-matters Renaissance plane — SET DESIGN PHASE
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Spend 2 life:Add one mana
@The-DM
Ah yeah, Loving Bear x) For those of you (a.k.a. 99.9% of people) who don't remember the card from like, one year ago, here it is:
The problem was that there was a bad interaction with this kind of cards where:
1) Let's say you have 2 psylian life, so it's a 4/4.
2) You get attacked by two 2/2s. You blocked one of them with the Loving Bear.
3) The 2/2 that was blocked dies, but because you lose all your psylian life to the other 2/2 that hit you in the face, your bear is downgraded to a 2/2 as well and dies even though it was a 4/4 when it blocked.
Because of this, I removed all the toughness bonus "as long as you have psylian life". When the other green theme "as long as your life total is odd" came along, I decided to differenciate them by having the psylian life archetype care more about abilities that can protect you, and the Odd life archetype be more about growth so it would get the stats boost.
About the story, it's very fuzzy. We talked about it a lot at some point but haven't figured out what is the main drive of the story yet. Among the things we know, there's a character that stayed through all iterations who's a mute girl that can only communicate through music. That's just how she talks. We also know that Serra is reborn in the set, which is the start of the Renaissance era of Rezatta. And we know a Da Vinci-like character is involved. I mentioned the possibility that he could actually be a planeswalker and that he "borrows" some of his most brilliant idea to other planes.
@LordTachanka123
Do you mean Twin Statues? Bad as-in design-wise or utility-wise? Because it's not a bad design, I could see a world where this get printed but double strike is a bit odd so the set would need to have a specific theme that justifies it. It's definitely a cool idea to have put defender so you can't cheese the opponent with a Giant Growth, but at common it makes attacking very difficult so it would create some board stall, I think. Utility-wise, it's actually a pretty good card and an excellent blocker which is why it doesn't fit this slot specifically. I actually need something very "meh" here, that doesn't pull the focus XD
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Ok, for the remaining land removal slot, it's not especially refine or elegant but I suppose this could do the job:
A 4-mana red or green card that destroys a land, artifact or enchantement is pretty common. I figured destroying a creature with flying is roughly interchangeable with destroying an artifact or enchantment. The instant speed makes the card slightly more interesting.
Is there a possibility that I can make some of those people you mentioned? I enjoy character design and lore.
If so, then what's their races? Is that decided yet?
Sure, if you can find a cool design for any character, we'll gladly use it! ^^
Any character inspired by the Italian/European Renaissance era is fair game, but more specifically we could really use a card for some of those characters:
- Any of the artists that gave their name to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo).
- Serra reborn
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- The mute girl that talks using music
Their race hasn't been decided yet, don't be afraid to make some of them non-human, especially because the plane has anthropomorphic animals:
[EDIT]: P.S.: Yeah, as LordTachanka123 mentioned above, they probably won't be uncommons so aim at rare and mythic for those characters ^^ Maybe some of the artists can get at uncommon I suppose.
Do you think that sized down this could be Serra?
Is this the best word to describe the mute girl?
Sprechstimme (Sorry. I don't know how to define it in my own words...)
@ningyounk
Niccolo Machiavelli is the author of the book "The Prince", a very famous political book that was considered particularly unethical, and frankly evil xD He gave us the word "Macchiavellian", in other words he could very easily be a bad guy in the story!
Concept for Serra.
@ningyounk
Beautiful art, yeah it could totally work as a Serra illustration I suppose! ^^
@The-DM
I definitely had to google that XD But yes, Sprechstimme is exactly the kind of thing she would use to communicate, though don't think imitating actual words, just emotions. If she agrees with you, the music is allegro and joyful, if she doesn't it becomes more dissonant. Maybe if she's sad she would break into a slow sonata, while she would express anger through rising staccato for instance.
Remake!
@ningyounk
No, I don't play any instrument sadly, that was about the extent of my musical knowledge xD
GWB would work ^^ It's a bit hard on the mana though for a set that doesn't have a multicolour theme, it would make her a very niche planeswalker. Don't worry too much about the planeswalker cards though and don't hesitate to make multiple versions of the same character, we won't decide what card to put in the set at this stage anyways, it's content for later.
Also, here's a rendition of a planeswalker Serra card using the illustration you posted earlier, it does look pretty badass and this non-human, almost artifact version of her is a very unique twist:
Don't worry, you can use any other art you like and you can post text-only cards. It's just for the concepts at this stage, the cards won't go directly into the set, we need to know more about what it needs, the planeswalkers is one of the last things you design usually.
Legendary Creature-Human Pirate [u]
Whenever {Cardname} attacks, you may discover(That's what it's called right?).
Creature spells that were cast by being discovered enter the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter.
4/5
Just a concept.